 Children need their parents to put boundaries around them. Boundaries LGBT activists relentlessly work to remove. Chad says, in 1998, I was outed as gay to my father by school administrators. It was late in the afternoon when I heard my name called on the intercom to go to the principal's office. My heart sank. I awkwardly stood up and left the class, all eyes on me. I told one person I was gay a day before and had become consumed with paranoia that everyone else now knew.